GrobYc
25th/May/2057
3:05 A.M
For real, I need to sleep, but I really
need those oxygen masks, I have searched for 2 hours, and still can’t find a
cheap one, they are way more expensive than I thought. I still remember when
bus tickets were $2.00 each one, nowadays they are almost $12.00, but I can
understand it, times have changed,and I have changed too, no more taxis, now we
use “Uber Sky”, now we can only use 1 liter of water per day since the water
nowadays is almost dried, air pollution is too high also, that’s why I’m buying right now oxygen masks, they last for 5 days, which is
useful for me. Oh, look that I have found a page on “cybernet” which sells
those masks cheaper than usual.
I almost forgot to introduce myself: I’m
Richard, and I’m buying oxygen masks because I’m getting ready for an adventure,
let me explain it to you. It all started 3 months ago when I saw on Cybernet a post
about some kind of new city called
“GRobYc” and what I understood is that it was a new city which was covered by something
called the Cyber Wall, which is a system that provides pure oxygen, like the
one we breathed 27 years ago. I saved the page to read it later, but after 13
hours it just disappeared. I started thinking about why they will ever eliminate
something that could save the few populations of U.S.A, so until now I have been
preparing myself for the mission to find GrobYc .
13:56 P.M
In 3 minutes I will be receiving my
oxygen masks, I’m actually
Tomorrow is the the day I have waited
for so long, but finally I have everything packed, I have stored water and
also food, now I’m finally ready. ~Beep Dong! Your package has arrived~ Finally
it arrived, now I’m fully ready, there is no turning back, tomorrow I will leave
this place and adventure myself into the “forest” of U.S.A.
26th/May/2057
4:36 A.M
I know
it’s too early, but I couldn’t sleep the whole night, because I was thinking of
different alternatives that could happen, but I think it’s a good way to start this
adventure, I will leave at 5:00 A.M because air pollution is low and I can
breathe easily without using the fake oxygen.
4:50 A.M
There is no turning back, see you
later(maybe never) house.
It’s so strange to leave home, it’s so
strange to walk by the streets, using my own nose, walking as I did 27 years
ago, the only thing that has changed is that I walked innocently and now I’m
limited to breathe, why couldn’t we stop using plastic Why did we ever create plastic?It’s so funny how we are our own destroyers. At this point I have walked
for 30 minutes, and I can start to feel the pressure,it’s time to use the mask.
From now on, my days are being counted. I attached the little belt to the back of my head and the
oxygen at my back, I turned on the little machine, but it didn’t work. That’s when
I understood my mom’s old say “cheap stuff are not always good”, I tried again
to turn it on but I couldn’t, so I started to try to turn it on but I couldn’t.
I
was betrayed, and as I said it’s a one way ticket, now I don’t know how to turn
back home, 'cause now I have walked for 50 minutes and I’m currently trapped in
an endless road who used to be a forest, and I know you’ll say to call a friend
and use the GPS to get me out of here, but I didn’t bring my phone.
I’m not
stupid, I know the government is watching us through our phones, and they’ll
know if I’m searching for something, the government wants to hide. Once again,
I’m not stupid, I know they “accidentally” leaked this info and I know they
deleted because of the avarice, GREED will never end, they think about
themselves only, 2 hours, 2 hours since I’ve been walking in an endless road, I
feel this strange pressure in my chest “am I feeling air pollution effects?” I
asked. Let’s try again maybe now it’ll function, I tried turning on the mask
hoping it will finally work, but it didn’t.
5:49 P.M
12 hours and I gotta say it’s kinda
impressive, I haven’t walked so much since Uber Sky exists, but I gotta say
that I’m feeling thirsty, I took out my bottle of water and drank a little
bit, I needed to save some. If I can’t survive with oxygen, then I’ll survive
with a bottle of water. And tired, I’m really tired, where am I gonna sleep?I
don’t know, I would’ve have slept on the grassy floor, but unfortunately now
it’s just a rocky floor with specks of dried grass.
I laid myself in an uncomfortable rocky
floor, using my backpack as a pillow, I’m not scared for sleeping on the floor because 86% of the animal kingdom is gone( that’s why nowadays we eat pills, they
replace the various kinds of food we
used to eat years ago, we are now what they called before “skinny legend”).
My back hurts, but it’s what I have, right
now I’m not wishing to have my luxurious bed, I’m wishing to find GrobYc as
fast as possible because I feel how my lungs are dying second by second.
27th/May/2057
6:42 A.M
As every day I ate my breakfast pills, but today
I have decided to explore around my improvised camp,I need to find at least
some dry sticks to do a fire, because last night I almost froze, is it gonna be
hard? Yes, due to the fact that nowadays trees are almost gone and if I can’t
find a living tree, how am I supposed to find a dead one? But I’m a positive
person, and I’m convincing myself that what I’m going through right now is
worth it.
Minutes have passed and I can’t just
stop coughing and feeling this weird pressure in my chest, just 50 minutes have passed, I have found some
sticks that I think could be useful to make a fire, and you may ask. Does this
man really know how to set a fire? Well yeah, those 7 years of being a boy scout are finally worth it.
4:38 P.M
I have decided to follow my plan, I just
can’t be here anymore, my chest hurts way too bad for being normal and every
minute that passes, I feel as if I couldn’t breathe. So now I packed again my few
goods and started following my indications in the little map that I tidied 2 days
ago. I feel how the weather has changed. now the days feel a little more gloomy than what they were 27 years ago.
I remember when reaching 89 wasn’t a big
deal, now if you are 47 you are a legend, why couldn’t we just appreciate our
lives? Why couldn’t we appreciate the few things we had? The human being is an
avaricious living thing, they can’t just be happy with simple things, the human
beings are greedy, they all just want to have more and more, just because
they want to surpass each other. Ridiculous, at the end of the day, we're in the
same animal kingdom.
I have been walking like for about 3 hours,
and I’m feeling strange, like if someone was seeking me, the pressure gets
worse as I feel the time passing. Why couldn’t I stay in home?, why couldn’t I just
ignore that random post?, why couldn’t I convince myself that it was a
conspiracy theory?, as time passes, I’m regretting more and more.
Are some side effects of air pollution hallucinations?
I don’t know why but I’ve been hearing some steps behind me, maybe I’m getting
crazy because of the lack of oxygen, this pressure on my chest hurts so bad, I
hate myself for being so curious of something that is probably a fake, I don’t
know how much time I have walked. I checked my watch and Is it possible? I
have been walking for 6 hours, time flies, I can see the sunset, but why am I
still hearing those noises? Is he following me? I’m too tired to think, I laid
myself on the naked floor and as I’ve been doing using my backpack as a pillow.
28th/May/2057
Unkown hour
Where am I? I don’t know what happened
after I closed my eyes yesterday, I woke up in a really strange place, the
whole room is white, and my feet and hands are tied with an invisible thing,
I’m not gonna lie, I’m really scared, but I can breathe like I normally did 27
years ago, the oxygen seems ...Pure? I hear some steps, and rarely are the same
ones that I heard long time ago in the “forest”.
Those steps are getting closer, they
stopped right in front of
-Good morning, Mr Stellmain!- said the robotic
voice of the 2nd robot, I was so shocked that I forgot to reply him
back.
-shock is one of the finals stages after
you wake up in a place you have never seen before, Welcome to GrobYc!- said the
3rd machine.
Did you say GrobYc?-I asked to the
machines, am I dreaming? Maybe it’s part of the hallucinations.
-Seems like you already knew of this place-
said finally the tall guy
Umm… o-of course I didn’t- I said
-lying test positive- said the 1st
robot
Lying is not the best option at GrobYc,
now let’s do it easy , how did you find out about GrobYc?
I was just doing some camping, at the foreast-
that’s the most stupid excuse that I have ever said
How did you find GrobYc- said in a
serious way, while he took a really weird weapon that I have never seen
before.
I don’t know what are you talking about,
Sir.
Beep was the only sound that I could hear after the small room
transformed into a suffocating air polluted cube, I felt how the pressure on my
chest returned, but in a more painful way, I couldn’t breathe properly, the tall
man asked me in a madder way again: “how did you found out about GrobYc?” to get
the same answer: “I don’t know”, poor me who was dying without knowing that they
had a full equipped technology who let them know everything in my brain, I was
dying and lying in vain.
I really thought it was the end, until I
heard a door slammed and a robotic female
voice said; “stop killing the human, the brain analysis are ready. Sir, would
you like to see the results?”
To be continued….
By Antonella Cantillo Cure, Step 9
